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There was also some consolidation at that same time. For example, Western Digital purchased Hitachi in 2012. At around the same time, Fujitsu, Lacie, and Samsu
by briffle 9y ago
There was also some consolidation at that same time. For example, Western Digital purchased Hitachi in 2012. At around the same time, Fujitsu, Lacie, and Samsung also were acquired.
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- rb808 9y agoYeah I had to buy a new HD recently and was a little shocked that there are only really 2 manufacturers + Toshiba. No wonder prices aren't great.
- jaclaz 9y agoYep, the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_hard_disk_manufacturers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_hard_disk_manu... has an excellent "consolidation diagram": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_hard_disk_manufacturers#/media/File:Diagram_of_Hard_Disk_Drive_Manufacturer_Consolidation.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_hard_disk_manu...
- fnj 9y agoWhy do you phrase it "2 manufacturers + Toshiba"? Why not just "3 manufacturers"?
- rb808 9y agoAgreed its a little weird, but if you look at best sellers the first Toshiba is on the 3rd page. https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Internal-Hard-Drives/zgbs/electronics/1254762011 https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Internal-Har...
- antisthenes 9y agoAFAIK Toshiba is the smallest one of the 3, it is not their primary business, and there's a high likelihood of their HDD business being sold off to one of the 2 big ones in the near future.
- chx 9y agoLacie, as far as I am aware, never manufactured their own hard drives. Look here for example in 2006 http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,85231,85262 http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,85231,85262 > Thank you for your email. We use a few different manufacturers, so we would not be able to tell you which drives go to which item (except the 500GB drives which are Hitachi). In general we do use Western Digital, Seagate, and we did use Maxtor before they were bought by Western Digital. For DVDs, we use Samsung. Wikipedia says , much earlier: > As a subsidiary of Quantum, La Cie was licensed as the exclusive manufacturer of Apple-branded external SCSI hard drives, using Quantum hard disks.
- Theodores 9y agoThis confirms what I remember. A 3D modeller I worked with was deeply upset when Maxtor took over Quantum as the 2Gb SCSI disks that were carried around at the time were LaCie, apparently with Quantum disks which were allegedly the best for replaying video frames. At the time I did not know LaCie was owned by Quantum. Back then there wasn't the internet to quickly Google brands so you only had marketing information to go on.
- chx 9y agoo_O Maxtor purchased Quantum in October 2000. This is the same month when Adwords left beta. What the heck are you talk of? By 2000 home broadband is beginnning to spread, dial up Internet is everyday in most of the so called developed world.
- giobox 9y agoI'd always assumed La Cie's storage business model the past however many decades was to take stock drives from other manufacturers and put them in nicely designed enclosures. The premium on their stuff has always seemed to correlate to the nicer materials and design on the cases, not the drives themselves. I guess occasionally they also seem to tap the early adopter market when a new storage interconnect comes out (FireWire 800, Thunderbolt etc). They often seem to be one of the first out of the gate with support when Apple add a new port.